thetruthaboutefca.com | The Truth About The Employee Free Choice Act & Card Check

The Washington Examiner, always a fine read, has an editorial this morning about the $10 million in flushed union dues dollars that Big Labor bosses wasted on running a challenger to Arkansas Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln. The editorial concludes with this cost estimate:

Big Labor has spent an estimated $400 million since 2006 seeking to elect enough Democrats to assure that card check becomes law. Just last month, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees’ Gerald McEntee said his union would spend another $50 million trying to protect Democratic incumbents in 2010. Here’s to hoping card check opponents in every congressional district in America make ‘em flush it all.

There’s an interesting angle here, and that is what lessons will come from this week’s results. Will candidates realize that they can, indeed, defy powerful labor bosses on the issue of card check? There are certainly a few whispers that are promising.

On the flip side, have union bosses learned not to throw away millions of their members’ hard-earned dues dollars? Have they learned that they can’t force through the most anti-business, anti-jobs, anti-competition political candidates?

Frankly, based on this story in Politico, the simple answer is that it doesn’t seem Big Labor has learned any lessons at all. SEIU’s new president said, “We

Tags: Dues, Gerald McEntee